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HUMAN CHARACfEE, 

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, 

AS DEVELOPED BY 

MEASUREMENT AND ELEMENTATION; 

ALSO 

A SUMMARY 

OF 

POTENSIAL PHILOSOPHY 

AND INVENTIONS. 

The Potential Philosophy investigates Cause and Effect in the Universe, 

$hows its Constitution to be of Atoms of Power and Matter; 

and its Operations to consist in their Perpetual Union, 

Disunion and Reunion with one another, 

in Degree, Quantity and Element. 



by h. Strait, 

EXPERIMENTER AND 1NVENTER. 



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more complete. Every Measurement from which the Natural Charac- 
ter is determined and drawn is Instrumental, and can be taken with 
Accuracy. The Power, Degree and Class of every Mental Sense is of 
Instrumental Determination and Mathematical Correctness. The 
Powei and Degree of Combinations are equally so. The necessary 
Measurements can be taken in a very little time and with Accuracy, by 
a little Instruction and Practice. 

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• Middle Distric of Tennessee. \ 

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whereof he claims as proprietor, as follows, to wit: "The Philosophy of 
the Human Character, Mental and Physical, as developed by Measure- 
ment and Elementation; also, a summary of Potensial Philosophy and 
Inventions/' bv H. Strait. 

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Clerk of snid Court. 




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THE PHILOSOPHY 



HUMAN CHARACTER, 



THE MENTAJL, SENSES. 

1. ACQUISITION. Its Location, 29 M. Zone. 

Its Element: The Sense of Acquisition. Power- 

" Personal Office: To Acquire. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Acquirer. Class. 

44 Medion; A medium Sense of Acquisition. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L*. Sense of Acqui- 
sition. 
u Under-medion; A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Acqui- 
sition. 

2. ASSISTANCE. Location, 23 N. Zone. 

Its Element; The Sense of Assistance. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Assist. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Assister. Class. 

44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Assistance. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Assis- 
tance. 
44 Under-medion? A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Assis- 

3. BEAUTY. Location, 31 M. Zone. 

Its Element; The Sense of Beauty. Power. 

4k Personal Office; To Beautify. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Beautifier. Class. 
44 Medion; A medium Sense of Beauty. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Beauty. 
44 Under-medion; A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Beauty. 

4. BELIEF. Location, 17 M. Zone. 

Its Element; The Sense of Belief. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Believe. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Believer. Class. 

44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Belief. 
44 Over Medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Belief. 



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44 Under- Med ion; A Small, V. S.or E. S. Sense of Belied 
. COLOR. Location, 62 M. Zone. 
Its Element; The Sense of Color. Power. 

" Personal Office; To Color. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Colorcr. Class. 

44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Colors. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L. orE. L. Sense of Colors. 
" Under -medion; A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Colors. 
. COMPARISON. Location, 43 M. Zone. 
Its Element; The Sense of Comparison. Poiter. 

44 'Personal Office; To Compare. Degree. 

" Personal Language; I am the Comparer. Class. 
44 Median; A Medium Sense of Comparison. 
44 Oder -medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Com- 
parison. 
4t Under -medion; A Small, V. S. orE. S. Seiase of Com- 
parison. 
. CONSTRUCTION. Location, 39 M. Zone. 
Its Element; The Sense of Construction. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Construct. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Constructer. Class. 
44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Construction, 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Con- 
struction. 
" Under-medion: A SmaD, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Con- 
struction. 
. CONTINUANCE. Location, 13 N. Zone. 
Its Element: The Sense of Continuance. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Continue. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Continuer. Class. 

44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Continuance. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Con- 
tinuance. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Con- 
t"imi snee 
. DEFENCE. Location, 30 N. Zone. 
Its Element; The Sense of Defence. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Defend. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Defender. Class. 

44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Defence. 
k4 Over-medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Defence. 
" Under-medion: A Small, V. S.or E. S. Sense of Defence. 



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10. FORM. Location, 75 M. Zone. 
Its Element. The Sense of Forms. 

44 Personal Office; To Form. 
44 Personal Language; I am the Former. 
44 Meclion; A Medium Sense of Forms. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L.orE.L 
44 Under -medion; A Small V. S. or E. S 

11. HOPE. Location, 11 M. Zone. 
Its Element; The Sense of Hope. 

44 Personal Office; To Hope. 

44 Personal Language; lam the Hoper. 

44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Hope. 

44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Hope. 

44 Under -medion; A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Hope. 

12. IMITATION. Location, 24 M. Zone. 

Its Element; The Sense of Imitation. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Imitate. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Imitater. Class. 

44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Imitation. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L. orE. L. Sense of Imitation. 
44 Under-medion; A Small V. S. or E. S. Sense of Imitation. 

13. IMPRESSION. Location, 53 M. Zone. 
Its Element; The Sense of Impression. 

44 Personal Office; To Impress. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Impresser. 

44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Impression. 

44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Impres- 
sion. 

44 Under-medion; A Small V. S. or E. S. Sense of Impres 
sion. 

14. INCREASE. Location, 34 N. Zone. 
Its Element; The Sense of Increase. 

44 Personal Office; To Increase. 
44 Personal Language; I am the Increaser 
44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Increase.'. 
M Over-medion; A Large, V. L.or E. L. Sense of Increase. 
• « Under- medion; A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Increase. 
I.'). JUSTICE, Location, (> M. Zone. 
lis Element; The Sense of Justice. 
" Personal Office; To Justify. 

• Personal Language; I am the Justifier. 

• Medion; A Medium Sense of Justice. 

•• Over-medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L. Senseof Justice. 



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44 Under- median; A Small, V. S. orE. S. Sense of Justice. 

16. NUMBER. Location, 60 M. Zone. 

Its Element; The Sense of Numbers. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Number. Degree. 

M Personal Language; I am the Numberer. Class. 
" Medion; A Medium Sense of Numbers. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V.L. orE. L. Sense of Numbers. 
44 Under -medion; A Small, V. S.orE. S. Sense of Numbers. 

17. OBEDIENCE. Location, 13 M. Zone, 

/te Element; The Sense of Obedience. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Obey. Degree, 

44 Personal Language; I am the Obeyer. Class. 

44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Obedience. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V.L.orE.L. Sense of Obedience. 
44 Under-medion; A Small, V. S.orE. S. Sense of Obedience. 

18. OBSERVATION. Location, 64 M. Zone. 

Its Element; The Sense of Observation. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Observe. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Observer. Class. 

44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Observation. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Observa- 
tion. 
44 Under-medion; A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Observa- 
tion. 

19. ORDER. Location, 61 M. Zone. 

Its Element; The Sense of Order. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Order. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Orderer. Class. 

14 Medion; A Medium Sense of Order. 
44 Over-medion; A Large, V. L.or E. L. Sense of Order. 
44 Under-medion; A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Order. 

20. PERSON. Location, 4 N. Zone, 

Its Element; The Sense of Person. Power. 

44 Personal Office; To Personize. Degree. 

44 Personal Language; I am the Persottizer, Class. 
44 Medion; A Medium Sense of Person. 
k4 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. orE. L. Sense of Person. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Person. 

21. PLACE. Location, 52 M. Zone. 

[ts Element; The Sense of Places. Power. 

44 Personal Office: To Place. Degree 

44 Personal Language: I am the Placer. (lass. 

" Medion: A Medium Sense of Place*. 



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The Mental Senses 
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ACQUISITION |29| M. |Aq. || 


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ASSISTANCE J23| N. |Ast. |j 


BEAUTY |31| M. | By. || 


BELIEF |17| M. | Bl. || 


COLOR ]62| M. | CI. || 


COMPARISON 


43 1 M. |Cmp|| 


CONSTRUCTION 


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CONTINUANCE |13| N. | Ct. ,| 


DEFENCE 


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FORM 


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HOPE |11| M. |Hp. || 


IMITATION |24j M. | Im. || 


IMPRESSION |53| M. |Imp.|| 


INCREASE |34| N. | In. || 


JUSTICE 1 6| M. j Js. || 


NUMBER |60| M. 1 Nb. |] 


OBEDIENCE 


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OBSERVATION 
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61| M. | Or. || 


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PLEASURE 


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POSSESSION 


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I SAFETY |14| Co. [ Sy. || 


SIZE |63| M. | Sz. II 


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50| M. |Tm. || 


TIME j 


UNION |50| N. |Un. || 


VICTORY |35| Co. | Vy. || 




[WEIGHT |63| M. |Wt. || 


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44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. orE. L. Sense of Places* 
** Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Places. 
-22.. PLEASURE. Location, 6 N. Zone. 

Its Element: The Sense of Pleasing. Power. 

*' Personal Office: To Please. Degree, 

•" Personal Language: I am the Pleaser. Class. 

44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Pleasing. 
** Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Plea- 

sing. 
" Under-medion: A Small, V. S. orE. S. Sense of Plea 

sing. 

23. POSSESSION. Location, 27 Common. 

Its Element: The Sense of Possession. Power, 

44 Personal Office: To Keep. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Keeper. Class. 

44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Possession. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Pos 

session. 

44 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Pos 
session. 

24. REASON. Location, 41 M. Zone. 

Its Element: The Sense of Reason. Power. 

44 Personal Office: To Reason. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Reasoner. Class. 
44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Reason. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Reason 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Reason, 

25. RESISTANCE. Location^ 4 M. Zone. 

Its Element: The Sense of Resistance. Power. 

44 Personal Office: To Resist. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Resister, . Class. 

" Medion: A Medium Sense of Resistance. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Re- 
sistance. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Re- 
sistance. 

26. SAFETY. Location, 14 Common. 

Its Element: The Sense of Safety. Power. 

" Persenal Office: To Secure. ' Degree. 

*' Personal Language: I am the Securer. Class. 

44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Safety. 
" Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Safety, 
<4 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Safety. 






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•27. SIZE. Location, 63 M. Zone. 

Its Element: The Sense of Sizes. Power. 

" Personal Office: To Size. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Sizer. Class. 

" Medion: A Medium Sense of Sizes. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Sizes. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Sizes. 

28. SYMPATHY. Location, 26 M. Zone. 

Its Element: The Sense of Sympathy. Poiver. 

44 Personal Office: To Sympathise. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Sympathiser. Class. 
44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Sympathy. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Sym- 
pathy, pathy. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, Y. S. or E. S. Sense of Sym- 

29. TIME. Location, 50 M. Zone, 

Its Element: The Sense of Time. Power. 

44 Personal Office: To Time. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Timer. Class, 

44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Time. 

14 Over-medion: A Large, V. L.orE. L. Sense of Time. 

44 Under-medion: A Small, Y. S. or E. S. Sense of Time. 
j 30. UNION. Location, 50 N. Zone. 

Its Element: The Sense of Union. Power. 

44 Personal Office: To Unite. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Uniter, Class. 

44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Union. 

44 Over-medion: A Large, Y. L.or E. L. Sense of Union. 

44 Under-medion: A Small, Y. S. or E. S. Sense of Union. 

31. VICTORY. Location, 35 Common. 

| Its Element: The Sense of Yictory. Power. 

44 Personal Office: To Conquer. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the Conquerer. Class. 
44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Yictory. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Victory. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, Y. S. orE. S. Sense of Yictory. 

32. WEIGHT. Location, 63 M. Zone. 
Its Element: The Sense of Weight. Power. 

44 Personal Office: To Weigh. Degree. 

44 Personal Language: I am the the Weigher. Class. 

i4 Medion: A Medium Sense of Weight. 

" Over-medion: A Large, V. L . or E. L. Sense of Weight. 

\ 4 Under- medion: A Small, V. S. orE. S. Sense of Weight. 



THE PHYSICAL, SENSES, 

33. ACTION. The Instruments of; The Muscles. 

Its Element: The Sense of Action. Over. 

" Personal Office: To Act. Median-o. 

44 Personal Language: We are the Acters. Under. 
44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Action. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E . L . Sense of Action. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V S. or E S. Sense of Action. 

34. FEELING. The Instruments of; The Nerves. 
Its Element: The Sense of Contact. Over. 

44 Personal Office: To Feel, Median-o. 

44 Personal Language: We are the Feelers. Under. 
44 Median: A Medium Sense of Contact. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E L. Sense of Contact. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Con- 
tact. 

35. HEARING. The Instruments of; The Ears. 
"Its Element: The Sense of Sound, Over. 
44 Personal Office: To Hear, Median-o. 
44 Personal Language: We are the Hearers. Under. 
44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Sound. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L Sense of Sound. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V S. orE. S. Sense of Sound. 

3G. SIGHT. The Instruments of; The Eyes. 

Its Element: The Sense of Light. Over. 

44 Personal Office: To See. Median-o, 

44 Personal Longuage: We are the Seers. Under. 
44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Sight. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L.or E. L. Sense of Light. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. orE. S. Sense of Light. 

37. SMELL. The Instruments of; The Nostrils. 
Its Element: The Sense of Odors. Over. 

44 Personal Office: To Smell. Median-o. 

44 Personal Language: We are the Smellers. Under, 
44 Medion: A Medium Sense of Odors. 
44 Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Odors. 
44 Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E S. Sense of Odors. 

38. TASTE. The Instruments of; The Tongue and Pal- 

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Its Element: The Sense of Food and Drink. Over 
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kk JMedion: A Medium Sense of Food and Drink. 

ik Over-median: A Large, V, L. or E. L. Sense of Food 
and Drink. 

"Under-medion: A Small, V. S. orE. S. Sense of Food' and 
Drink. 
j|9. VOCALITY, The Instruments of; The Vocal Organs. 
Its Element: The Sense of Vocality. Over. 

" Personal Office: To Vocalise. Median -o. 

" Personal Langua ge: We ar the Vocalizers. Under 

" Medion: A Medium Sense of Vocality. 

" Over-medion: A Large, V. L. or E. L. Sense of Vo- 
cality. 

" Under-medion: A Small, V. S. or E. S. Sense of Vo- 
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1- What is the Hemispherical Size of my Head? How many 

i Degrees is it over or under the Medium Size? How are my 

Radiations generally? Where are they greatest? 

How is my Head balanced? 
Which are my most Powerful Senses? Which is my 

Ruling Temperament? What does it 

incline me to? What is my Temper? 

Feelings? 
10. What is my Talent for acquiring Knowledge? 
Wealth? Popularity? What Branches of Science can 

I most readily learn? What is my Observing Talent? 

What my Talent for Memorization? What my general 

Memory? What can I remember best? What 

is my Judgment of Distances, Heights, Widths, Depths, Dimensions, 
Capacities and Areas bv Inspection? What, of Forms? 

20. What, of Size? " Order? Colors? 

What is my Talent for Numbers? What is my Memory of 

Places? Objects? Colors? Forms? Sizes? 

Orders? Reasons? Comparisons? Dates? 

,' 30. What is my Memory of Actions? Thoughts? Charac- 

ters? Transactions? Would I improve by Travelling? 

By Conversation? By Reading? Am I 

more inclined to Thought or Action? To Mental or 

Physical Exercise? Am I most partial to Particular 

or General Things? To Principles or Precedences? 

To Reasons or Comparisons? To History or Poetry? 

To Fiction or Facts? 
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My Reason or Prejudices? 
My Judgment or .Feelings? What is my Talent, for Com- 

paring? For Reasoning? For Imitating? 

For Tainting? For Writing? For 

Instructing? For Calculating? 

50. What is my Mechanical Talent? Is it Inventive or 

Imitative? What is my Mathematical Talent? 

Geographical Talent? Engineering Talent? Am 1 1 

Persevering? Energetic? Punctual? 

What is my Musical Talent, vocally? Instrumentally? 

What, my Poetical Talent? Scientific Talent? 

Ornamental Talent? Legal Talent? Surgical 

Talent? 

60. Am I Conscientious? Independent? Can I 

improve? Invent? Investigate closely? 

Systemise? What is my Religion? Am I Sectarian? 

Inclined to lead or follow? To tyrannise? 

To Dictate? To Domineer? To Resent? 

70. Am I inclined to Society? To Solitude? 

To Sociability? To Hospitality? How do I 

esteem myself? Others? Am I inclined to Resist or 

Acquiesce? To Conquer or Submit? Am I 

anxious to Please? To Oblige? To Assist? 

Am I Rude or Polite? Am I Sympathising? 

Friendly? Charitable? Respectful? 

80. Am I Credulous or Incredulous? Cheerful or Fretful? 

Cautious or Venturous? Miserly or Liberal? 

Am I fond of all Young Increase? Of Music? 

Instruction? Improvement? Calculation? 

Science? Poetry? History? Popularity? 

Liberty? Personal Independence? 

90. Am I a good Calculater? Am I good in the Calculation, 

Memory and Measurement of Time? Ami Conversational 

or Reserved? Can I describe or represent Actions or Objects 

well? Can I compare them Critically? Am I inclined to 

be Particular and Tedious? What Food or Drinks do I 

prefer? 

100. Am I Eccentric? Ambitious? What does 

my Ambition point most to? What would I excel in Best? 

Would I make a good Instructer? Leader? 

Ruler? Philanthropist? Professor? Is my 

disposition Kind or Cruel? Sincere or Treacherous? 

110. Am I inclined to think and act for myself, or to act by the Direc- 
tion or Dictation of others? Am I straight forward in my 
Actions? Am I constant in my Friendships? Faithful in 
my Promises and Contracts? Am I Vigilant? 
Revengeful? Irritable? Jovial? Devotional? 



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120, Am I Witty? Personal.' Vindictive? 

Overbearing? Authoritative? Deceitful? 

Honest? Distrustful? Confiding*? 

Desponding? Melancholy? Avaricious*? 

Visionary? Capricious? Inconstant? 

130. Am I inclined to a settled or fixed Course of Life? 
To a fixed or chan gable Occupation? What Occupation would 

suit me best? Am I inclined to Think much? To Study? 

To Reason? To Compare? To be Profane? 

140. Am I Industrious? Frugal? Deferential? 

What is my Critical Talent? Practical Talent? 

Am I inclined to Flatter? To Apologise? Could I 

legislate well? Judge well? Manage well? 

What is my Memory of Music? Speeches? Sounds? 

Exhibitions? Expressions? Faces? 

J Sympathies? Countries? 

150. What am I most Talented in? Am I Sagacious or 

Penetrating? What is my Intuitive Talent? . Philo- 

sophical Talent? Imaginative Talent? Am I 

i inclined to Intemperance in Eating? In Drinking? 

1 What is my Activity? Am I venturesome? 

3 Possessive? Obstinate? Narrative? 

J Sentimental? 

160. Am I Egotistical? Confidential? Pros- 

pective? Retrospective? Practical? 



I. What is the Measurement Table for? To register all the Meas- 
urements, taken by the Oricle. How many Measurements, does the 
Oricle take of the Head? 300 Total, 150 Similar, 21 Common and 
139 Dissimilar. How many is it necessary to take in all? Only 139. 
How is the Total Power found? By adding up the 139 Measurements. 
How is the power of either Zone, Circle or any Part found? By adding 
up its Measurements. What is a Measurement called? A Radion. 
What indicates the Individual Power of any Sense? Its most Central 
Radion, or the Sum of its Radions divided by their number. What 
shows Differences of Power? The subtraction of Radions, Zones r 
Circles or Parts. What are all Measurements taken by? An X Scale and 
Rod layed off in Inches and Tenths. What constitutes a Degree in 
Radiation? A Tenth. 

10. How is the Medion of any Head found? By dividing the sum 
of its Radions by their Number. What does the Medion represent?.' 
Medium or Full, the Head being Hemispherical. What is the Medion* 
of a common sized Human Head? 40 Tenths. How are Heads reck- 
oned which are over or under 40? So many Degrees over or under 
Common Heads. How is Radiation reckoned? In Powers from the 



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Centre of Radiation and in Degrees from the Median. What are Ha- 
dions called which are over the Medion? Over-Medions. Under the 
Medion? Under-Medions. Equal with the Medion? Co-Medions. 
How are tlie Degrees of the Over-Medions found? By subtracting the 
Medion from them. How the Degrees of the Under-Medions? By 
subtracting them from the Medion. 

20. What does the Gradation Table show? The Degrees of Ra- 
diation for all heads between 1 and 7 Inches Hemisphered, and their 
Total Tower and Medions. What constitutes the Difference in Radiation 
between E. L„ V. L. L. and S., V. S., E, S.? One Inch. What does 
the Character Table show? The Mental Senses printed in Alphabetical 
order, their Zones, Abbreviations, most Central Radions, their written 
Order by Ascendency in Individual Power, their Individual Pow r er and 
Classes of Equal Power. In the Written Column, how does Power 
decrease? From the Top to the Bottom. What is Radiation taken as 
the Index or Measure of? Mental Power, Individually or Totally . 
What can be obtained by Periodical Measurement and Comparison? 
The Increase and the Degrees of it, in the Power of the Mental Senses> 
so far as Size is any Indication. What gives all the possible Variety of 
the Human Character? The Combinations of the Senses as Medium. 
Extreme and Intermediate in Power. In the Power of the Senses, 
what does Medium indicate? Their Medium Manifestation. What 
E. L., V. L. and L.? Their most Powerful Manifestation? What S. 
V. S. and E. S.? Their least Powerful Manifestation. 

30. How are all the Shades and Traits of Hun.an Character drawn 
and determined? By comparing their Powers or Degrees in the same 
or different Heads by Elementation. What are always inclined to 
Harmonise and Assimilate? Those whose Senses have similar Powers 
and Degrees of Radiation. What, to differ? Those whose Powers and 
Degrees differ. W^hat is the Harmony and Assimilation in Proportion 
to? The Similarity. How is the Power of the Physical Senses to be 
determined? By their Degree of Potension, their Structure; Size, Form, 
Texture, Activity, Appearance and the Pulse. What is the Tempera- 
ment entirely referable to? Potension. What is the Nervous Tempe- 
rament caused by? The Overpotension of the Nervous System. W r hat, 
the Sanguine? By the Overpotension of the Circulatory System. What, 
the Bilious? By their Equipotension. What, the Lymphatic? By 
their Underpotension. 

40. What does the Power of every Human Action depend on? The 
Power each Sense contributes to its Performance. How do the Senses 
co-operate? By Unanimity. How counter-operate? By Majority and 
Minority. What does Unanimity possess? The Power of both Majority 
and Minority. If tw r o Equal Senses or Powers co-operate, what do they 
produce? Double the Effect of either by itself. If they counter-operate, 
what? Nothing. What, therefore, do the Senses manifest by Co- 
operation? Great Decision and Power. What by Counter- operation? 
Great Indecision and Impotence. How do Favorable Circumstances 



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i operate on Natural Character? To the best Advantage. How, Unfa 
11 vorable Circumstances? To the worst Advantage. 

50. What, therefore, may really Good Natural Character, sometimes 

appear? Evil. What, really Evil Natural Character? Sometimes 
! Good. What then do Circumstances do to Appearance, sometimes? 
| Change the Scale of Good and Evil. When is Human Character? 
) Natural? When uninfluenced by Circumstances. What is necessary , 
' to estimate correctly, the Practical Efficiency of the Senses? Their 
'■Potension, Cultivation and Activity. What does their Potension deter 
■' mine How Much they can do. What, their Cultivation How, they 
1 can do. What, their Activity In what Time they can do. What de- 
!i termines every Degree and Power of the Mental Senses The Personal, 
■ Application of the Oricle to the Head. 

60. How is Natural Character estimated? Either in Powers with 
; j reference to Radiation; or in Degrees with reference to Medion. What 
•are E. L., V. L., L. and S., V. S., E. S. in reference to? Medion. How is 
ithe Average Power of any Combination of Senses found? By dividing 
I their Sum by their Number. How the Average Degree? By dividing 
■their Sum by their Number. How may the Power or Degree of each 

Sense be most accurately found and indicated By dividing the Sum of 
(its Radions by their Number. What is the Power of any Sense? The 
'Measure of its Talent, Capability, Capacity, Ability or Inclination to Do 

or Act? What, the Degree of any Sense? The Measure of its Talent, 

&c, to do or act either under or over Common or Ordinary. Why are 

Numbers preferable to Words in indicating or representing the Powers 
W" Degrees of Character? Because they are more Definite. 

70. In the Physical Senses, what does Median stand for? Common 

or Ordinary. What do the Figures by, Over or Under, indicate? The 
'Degrees of Power over or under Common. What represents the Median? 

0. How far do the Degrees range over or under the Medion? Only 

to 5 each Way. What is 5 Over? The most Powerful. What, 5 

Under? The least Powerful. 

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1. What is the Measure of Mental Power? Size of Brain. Of 
Physical Power? Size of Body. What gives Mental Activity? The 
Potension of the Brain. What, Physical Activity? The Potension of 
^he Body. What does Spherieity of Brain give? Variety and Versatility 
of Mental Action or Application. Of Body? Variety and Versatility 
m Physical Action or Application. What gives Sensibility and Delicacy 
to Structure and Texture? Potension. What gives Equality of Opera- 
tion? The Individual Proportionality of the Senses. What is the 
Instrument of Mental Power? The Brain? Of Physical Power? The 
.Body. 

10. What represents total Mental Power? Absolute Size of Brain. 
'What total Physical Power? Absolute Size of Body. What does the 

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Brain consist of? 32 Mental Senses. What, the Body? Of 8 Physica* 
Senses and their Apparatus. What has each Mental Sense? A definite 
and individual Office and Location in the Brain. What, each Physical 
Sense? A definite and individual Office in the Body. What are all 
Mental Operations? Either Simple or Compound. What, all Physical 
Opeiations? Either Simple or Compound. What all Human Opera" 
tions? Either Mental, Physical or both Combined. What are the Mind 
and Body? Of Elementary Composition. 

20. What is a Simple Mental Operation? The Operation of a 
Mental Sense by itself. What, a Compound? The Operation of several 
Mental Senses by themselves. What is a Simple Physical Operation? 
The Operation of a Physical Sense by itself. What, a Compound? — 
The Operation of several Physical Senses by themselves. What are 
all Inequalities of the Mental and Physical Senses or their Operations, 
owing to? Their Unequal Potension. W^hat is the Brain, the Instru- 
ment of? Direction. What, the Body? Of Execution. What is the 
Brain, the seat of? All Mental Power. What, the Body? Of all 
Physical Power. What does Power do to all the Senses? Subject 
tliem to Direction and Operation. 

30. What constitutes the Mind? The Mental Senses. What, the 
Body? The Physical Senses and their Apparatus. What operates 
Mind? Power. What, the Body? Power. What does the Mind 
do? Legislate. What, the Body? Execute. What are the Mental 
Senses for? Theory. What, the Physical Senses for? Practice. — ■- 
What is Thought? Mental Action. What is Labor? Physical 
Action. 

40. What does Power do to all the Senses? Operate them according 
to its Degree and their Size. What does the Equipotension of the 
Senses give to Natural Human Character by itself? Equilibrium. — ■ 
What their Under or Over-potension? Eccentricity. What does the 
Overpotension of the Senses tend to? Their Abuse. What, their 
Equipotension? To their proper Use. What, their Underpotension? 
To their Disuse. What does Mental Character result from? The Op- 
eration of the Mental Senses by themselves. What, Physical Character? 
From the Operation of the Physical Senses by themselves. What does 
Natural Character result from? The Operation of the Mental and 
Physical Senses by themselves, Individually. What does Circumstan- 
tial Character result from. The Operation of Natural Characters on one 
another. 

50. What do the Mental Senses do? Direct Physically. W r hat 7 
the Pysical Senses? Execute Mentally. What does every Sense, Men- 
tal and Physical, have? A definite and distinct Office and Location* 
What do the Senses form a Medium of Communication between? Man 
r.ndthe Universe. What does Measurement determine in the Human 
•System? Size and Quantity. What, Potension? Activity and Opera- 
tion. What, Elementation? Its Elementary Offices. Whet is the 
Face? A Mirror of Muscles for the Expression or Representation of the 



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Human Senses, either individually or collectively. What does all 
variety of Human Character arise from? The Unequal Potension of 
the Senses, their greater or less Size and Interaction with one another 
in Society- What do the Senses all radiate in Proportion to? Their 
Degree of Potension Individually. What is the Cultivation of the 
Senses for? To increase their Power and Size. 

60. Where are the Mental Senses located? In the Head. Where 
the Physical Senses? In the Body. What do the Mental Senses do? 
Communicate, Physically, throughout the Body, by Nerves. What, the 
Phvsical Senses? Communicate Mentally, throughout the Head, by 
Nerves. What are the Mental Senses for? To direct for the Physical 
Senses, What are the Physical Senses for? To execute for the Mental 
Senses. What is Man constituted of? Only two Kinds of Senses: the 
Mental for Direction, and the Physical for Execution, What is Expe- 
rience? Only Mental ratified by Physical Labor. What results from 

1 the Exercise of the Mental Senses? All Thought, Theory. Study. Idea. 
Meditation. Imagination, Fancy and Reflection. What results from the 
Exercise of the Physical Senses? All Labor, Work, Experience, Ex- 
periment, Trial and Operation. 

70. What do the Senses all originate and decline with? Their Po- 
tension What are the Physical Senses the Medium of Communication 

' between? The Mental Senses and Universe. In every Human Per- 

j formance, what do the Mental Senses devise? The Ways. Wh"*t do 

1 the Physical Senses supply? The Means. What does every Thought 
and Action, which has not a Sameness throughout, arise from? A Co- 

' operation of Mental or Physical Senses, or of both. What is every 
Idea, Mentally or Action, Physically? Either of Elementary or Com- 

■ pound Production. What is Thought? Mental Operation. What is 

: Labor? Physical Operation. What is Man constituted of? An As- 
semblage of Mental and Physical Senses and an Apparatus for their 
Operation. 

80. What is the Head? A Balance in which every Sense weighs 
according to its Potension and Size. What is Natural Character i: 

| The best Steel; Circumstances may bend it almost double, or so as ap- 
parently to unite the Extremes of Good and Evil; yet when they are 
withdrawn, it will resume its Natural State again. What is the Head 
divided into, for Distinction? The Forehead, Backhead, Sidehead and 
Crown. What does Breadth and Depth of Head indicate? Mental 

' Energy. What Breadth and Depth of Body? Physical Energy. — 
What does Breadth and Depth of Forehead indicate? Scientific Ex- 
cellence. What, of the Crown? Moral Excellence. What, of the 
lehead? Personal Excellence. 

90. What does the Forehead indicate? Penetration and Sagacity. 
What, the Sidehead? Intrepidity and Energy. What, the Backhead? 
Association and Conversation. What, the Crown? Morality and Sen- 
men t? What is the Expression of the Face? More Mental or Phys- 

i ical, as the Mental or Physical Senses excel in Power. How does any 



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Inequality in the Senses manifest itself? In their Size and Operation* 
What is the Face? Purely an Instrument or Expression of Represen- 
tation for the Human Senses. What is the Head? A Mental Instru- 
ment. What, the Body? A Physical Instrument. What are the Hu- 
man Senses? So many Keys for Power to play on. 

100. What do the Eyes present to the Mental Senses? The Pictures 
of Objects. What, the Ears? Their Sounds, What, the Nostrils? 
Their Odors. What; the Nerves? Their Surfaces. What, the Muscles? 
Their Motions. What is the Eye? A Pictorial Instrument. What is 
the Ear? A Sonorial Instrument. What, the Voice? A Vocal Instru- 
ment. What measures all Sound whatever? The Sense of Time.— 
Which are the Pictorial Senses? Observation, Form, Size, Weight, 
Color, Order and Number. 

110. What do the Eyes present to Observation? Objects. What, 
to Form? Their Forms. What, to Size? Their Sizes. What, to 
Weight? Their Weights. What, to Color? Their Colors. What, to 
Order? Their Orders. What, to Number? Their Number. What, 
to Places? Their Places. What, to Time? Their Times. What, 
to Comparison? Their Differences. What, to Reason? Their Cause. 

120. What is the Centre of Mental Operation! The Sensorion or 
Centre of Radiation. What, of Physical Operation? The Heart or 
Centre of Circulation. What do the Mental and Physical Senses do? 
Operate and Counter-operate. Where are Nerves distributed to, from 
the Brain? To all Parts of the Human System. Where are Blood- 
vessels distributed to, from the Heart? To all Parts of the Human 
System. What does applied Power determine? The Ascendency of 
the Senses over one another. What does every Mental Sense have? A 
Mental Office. What, every Physical Sense? A Physical Office. — 
What can no Mental Sense do? Fill the Office of a Physical Sense. 
What no Physical Sense? Fill the Office of a Mental Sense. 

130. What can the Office and Location of every Sense only be 
filled and occupied by? The Sense itself. What may the Mental 
Senses be, and the Physical not? Well Balanced. What the Physical 
and the Mental not? Well Balanced. What may Both be? Well 
Balanced. What, neither? Well Balanced. What is the Element of 
a Sense? Its Individual Office. What is the Talent or Faculty of a 
Sense? Its Capability or Capacity for filling its Office. What improves 
the Senses? Their Equal, Regular and Temperate Exercise in their 
Offices. What Deteriorates them? Their Unequal, Irregular and In- 
temperate Exercise. What do the Senses need, to bear Good Fruit? 
Careful Cultivation. 

140. What are the Mental Senses for? Legislation. What, the 
Physical Senses? Execution. What can no Sense do? Exchange 
Place or Officiate for another. What is equally Unchangable and Unex- 
changable? The Office and Location of each Human Sense. How do 
the Senses decide every Thing? By Unanimity or by Majority and Mi- 
nority. What does Overpotension excite the Senses to? Over-Action. 



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, What, Underpotension? To Under-Action. What, Equipotension? 
To Equal Action. What excites the Senses to Reaction? Repotension. 
What do all the Inequalities of Temper result from? The Underpo- 
tension of some and the Overpotension of other Senses. 

150. What does Size of Brain indicate? Mental Power. Of Body? 
i Physical Power. What does Sphericity of Brain indicate? Versatility 
! of Operation. What of Body? Versatility of Action. What de- 
. termines the Mental Character? The Action of the Mental Senses. 
( What, the Physical Character? The Action of the Physical Senses. 
, What the Natural Character? The Action of the Mental and Physical 
Senses by themselves. What, Circumstantial Character? The Opera- 
' tion of Natural Characters on one another. How do the Senses all 
. reciprocally* Influence one another? By Co-Operation and Counter- 
Operation. What are the Senses Individual in? Office, Location, Ope- 
ration and Character. 

160. What is Union among the Senses? Power. What, Disunion? 

; Impotence. How does Power radiate the Senses, when applied Equally? 

Equally. How, applied Unequally? Unequally. What follows? — 

• Some radiate farther and are more Powerful, and others less, and are 

\ less Powerful. What causes Equinimity? -Equipotension. What, 

| Eccentricity? Under or Overpotension. How do the Senses all operate? 

Mechanically. What do all the Differences in Mankind result from? 

] The different Potension and Size of the Senses. What do the Senses 

give Feature to? All Human Character. 

- 170. Whatdoes the Brain do? Direct. What, the Body? Execute. 
What, the Face? Express or Represent. What, the Voice? Vocalise 
by Speech or Music. How do the Senses receive all their Knowledge 
of the Universe? From the Action of its Parts, directly or medially, 
on them. What does Human Character result from? Power applied 
to the Senses. What are the Senses, when Overpotensiated? More or 
less Animated and Active. When Underpotensiated? More or less 
Languid and Inactive. What does the Human System consist of? A 
J Circulatory System for Matter, and a Nervous System for Power. What 
are all the Operations of the Senses, Expressions of the Face and Atti- 
tudes of the Body, caused by? Power acting through the Brain, 
Narves and Muscles. 

180. What does Power operating through the Meutal Senses result 
in? Thought. Through the Physical Senses? In Labor. What do 
the Senses all operate by? Potension. How does Overpotension incline 
the Senses? To Abuse. How Underpotension? To Disuse. How 
Equipotension? To Use. What does Mental Power predominate in? 
Man. What, Physical Power? In Animals. What does Mind result 
from? The Operation of the Mental Senses. What are the Physical 
Senses all operated on by? The Contact of Objects or the Vibrations 
or Undulations of Mediums they are in, caused by Power. What do 
Sensation, Sensibility, Consciousness, Nervousness and Feeling result 
from? More or less Potension, 



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190. What operate all the Senses, Muscles, Veins, Arteries, Nerves, 
Bones and Pores of the Human System? Potension. What are mus- 
cled and counter-muscled, so as to operate by Potension? The Eyes, 
Limbs and Bodies of all Human and Animal Beings. What is the 
Measure of Power? Action or Operation. How do the Senses mature 
and decline, by the Potensial Laws? By Degrees. What result from 
the Observance of the Potensial Laws? Long Life and Durable Enjoy- 
ment. What from their frequent Violation? Debility, Misery and 
Premature Death. What does Man now set to for his Likness instead 
of Mortality? The Sun. What is Mature Death or Death by Maturity? 
Painless. What Premature Death or Death by Prematurity? More 
or less Painful. What is requisite for all Performance? Power. 

200. How does Death by Maturity approach? Gradually, Degree 
by Degree. How, by Prematurity? More or less Sudden or Instanta- 
neous. In the Voluntary Operations, what is Power at the command 
of? The Mental Senses. What, in the Involuntary Operations? The 
Physical Senses. What constitutes the Will? The Decision of the 
Senses by Unanimity or by Majority and Minority. What constitutes 
Degrees of Activity? Degrees of Potension. What are the Senses all 
Instruments for? The Application of Power. What does the Cultiva- 
tion of a Sense consist in? Its frequent Exercise in its Office. What 
does every Natural Character possess? A Disposition to act in the Way 
it is the most Powerful. What constitutes Judgment? The Action of 
the Senses on any Thing. 

210. What Temprrament does a Pulse, Quick and Strong, indicate? 
TheSANGUiNE. What, Quick and Weak? TheNERVOus. What, Slow 
and Strong? The Bilious. What, Slow and Weak? The Lymphatic. 
What are the Senses? The Movable Types which compose all Charac- 
ter. What does Mental Power do? Preside over and direct Physical 
Power. What does God do? Preside over and direct the Mental and 
Physical Powers of the Universe. What distinguishes the Mental 
from the Physical Senses? The same that distinguishes Direction from 
Execution. What is every Mental Sense, therefore? Solely Directive. 
What, every Physical Sense? Solely Executive, 

220. What do the Mental Senses direct in? The Preparation and 
Use of every Thing. What do the Physitml Senses do? Use every 
Thing. How is the Human System sustained? By the Impletion and 
Depletion of Power and Matter in Sufficiency, What does the Cultiva- 
tion of a Sense consist in? Its Use, Education or Exercise in its Indi- 
vidual Office. What is all Human Labor compounded of? Mental 
and Physical Labor, What constitute the Mental Faculties? The 
Mental Senses. What, the Physical Faculties? The Physical Senses. 
What is every Sense limited to? Its own Office. What, incapacitated 
for? The Office of Another, How do the Mental Senses operate? 
Internally. How the Physical Senses? Externally, 

230. "What are the Mental Powers to be determined by? The Head, 
What, the Physical Powers? The Body, What, their combinad Ope- 



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ration? By Both. What is absolutely necessary for the proper Exercise 
. of Physical Power? Mental Power. What, for Mental Power? — 
* Physical Power. What, then, is their Connexion and Dependence? 
, Natural and Indispensible. What is the Index of Mental Eccentricity? 
i Very Unequal Radiation, which is shown by a very uneven Surface of 
i the Head, and great Disproportion in its Parts. What, of Physical 
i Eccentricity? A great Disproportion of Body and want of Symmetry. 
•' What divides the Mental from the Physicial Senses? The Plane of the 
i Oricle. What does this Plane unite? The Angles of the Eyes and 
i Openings of the Ears, and extends backward so as to constitute the 
| Base of the Brain. What addresses the Mental Senses? Every Thing 
I Directive. What, the Physical Senses? Every thing Executive. 

240. What do the Mental Senses constitute? The Mental Congress. 
9 What, the Physical Senses? The Physical Congress. What is the 
•j Mental Congress? The Human Directory or Judiciary. What, the 
n Physical Congress? The Human Executory or Administration. What 
i is Latent Heat? Only Chemical Power. What do all Fevers arise 
3 from? Chemical Power in Progress of Liberation. What are for the 
I Conduction and Direction of Power, Locally? Mediums, Muscles, 
I Levers, Tubes, Nerves and Wires. What is Sentiment? The Feeling 
■j of any Sense in its Office. What is the Object and Office of Sleep in 
j all Human and Animal Bodies? The Formation of Chemical Power, 
j or the Union of Power and Matter, Chemically. What do Advantage 
j and Disadvantage occupy? The opposite Ends of the Scale of Cir- 
cumstances. 
\ 250. What is Alcohol, Wine, Spirits and other Drinks intoxicating 
in Proportion to? Their Chemical Potension. What are Individuals 
constituted of? Senses. What, Society? Of Individuals. What, 
j Nations? Of Societies. What determines the Increase or Decrease 
li of Beard? The Increase or Decrease of its Potension. What does 
I the High Potension of the Blood in the Arteries do? Force it into 
J every Part of the System. What returns the Blood back in the 
;, Veins? The Excess of Potension employed in its Distributson. 
! Where is the Blood Repotensiated? In the Lungs. How is it Depo- 
| tensiated? By Distribution by Circulation. 

260. What is Natural Potension? Potension according to the 
; Potensial Laws. What is Artificial Potension? Potension as modified 
ij by Human Instrumentality. What is Putrefaction? A Depotensiating 
1 Operation. What are Petrefaction? Processes of Chemical Potension. 
■j What is the Intention of all Substances used to prevent Putrefaction in 
j Human, Animal and Vegetable Bodies? To hold their Atoms in 
1 Chemical Union, or strengthen their Chemical Union one with Another. 
; What is Thought? Mental Action. What Word? Its Vocal Action. 
' What its Execution and Performance? Physical Action. What is 
Light for? The Presentation of Objects to our Senses. What is Sound 
for? Their Audience. 



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INVENTIONS BY H. STRAIT. 

1. Balance Valves. Valves to be applied in the Construction of 
Wings or Oars for Aerial, Marine or Submarine Navigation; also, to 
Railway Cars, Blowing Engines, and Air and Water Pumps and Presses. 
First published in Silliman's Journal in 1834, and soon after republished 
in the Franklin Institnte Journal. Invented in 1830 and Patented June 
25th, 1834. 

2. Type Cylinder. A Cylinder set with Types or mounted with 
Stereotype Plate, so as to give Impressions continuously as it revolves. 
Published in the Franklin Institute Journal in 1835 and Invented in 
1834. 

3. Alletter. An Investigation of the Cause of Harmony in Lan- 
guage and Expression. Published in 1838 and Invented in 1835. 

4. Oricle. A Hemispherical Instrument for taking Human Mea- 
surements for the Purpose of Estimating Natural Character, and Execu- 
ting Sculpture. Complete, takes 1200 Measurements. Invented in 
January, 1845, and Specification Filed in the Patent Office Januarv 
30th, 1845. 

5. Time Telegraph. A Telegraph with two Equally-timed Cylin- 
ders with Alphabets on them at each Extremity, moved simultaneously 
by Clockwork. Any Kind of Characters can be used and communica- 
ted. Invented April 6th, 1845 and filed April 18th, 1845. 

6. Plane-Saw. A Saw to cut a smooth surface like a Plane. It 
consists of Sharp Side and Centre Teeth. The First, cut away on 
each Side, and the Last, cut out between. Invented February 16th, 
1845, and Filed March 3d, 1845. 

7. Sheeting-Machine. A Machine for Sawing Logs, &c, into 
continuous Longitudinal Sheets or Planks, circularly from Circumference 
to Centre. When Sawn, a Log will resemble a Coil of Paper or Metal. 
The Saw is narrow and operates Lengthwise. Invented in February, 
1845 and Filed March 3d, 1845. 

8. Cylindering Machine. A Machine^for Sawing Logs &cinto Con- 
centric hollow Cylinders of different Lengths and Sizes, for all kinds 
of hollow Cylindrical Wooden Ware. The Saws consist of Concentric 
hollow Cylinders with Teeth on their Ends, fastened on an Axle around 
one another. They operate Circularly and Endwise against a Log. 
Invented in February, 1845, and Filed March 3d, 1845. 

9. Philgsophy of Human Character. An Investigation of Hu- 
man Character by Elementation and Measurement. Invented in 1845. 
Copy Right. 

10. Economy Plow. A Plow with a Triangular Shear, three Equal 



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cutting Sides and a Sliding Point. Either Side of the Shear may be 
set forward and the Point advanced or shortened at Pleasure. The 
Shear or Point mav also be turned over. Invented October 1st, 1845. 
and Filed October 29th, 1845: 

11. Gieatory. A Conical or Hemispherical Amphitheatre for Public 
Amusement. A Spiral Railway mounted with Pleasure Cars is to extend 
from its Top to its Base around which there is to be a Spacious Area 
for them to travel in. until the Power they gain by their Descent becomes 
expended and they stop. The Cars are then to be drawn up through a 
Car-way, under the Railway to the Top for Redescent. Invented in 1 844. 

L"2. Potential Philosophy. An Investigation of Power and Matter 
and Cause and Effect, in the Constitution and Operation of the Universe. 
Invented in 1845 and '46. Copy-Right. * 

13. Mounted Metal Hokns. For Saddle Trees and Improved 
Saddle Tree Apparatus. The Horns are to be cast entire or in Part, 
of any Pattern and then Plated. The Patterns may be Human or Ani- 
mal Heads. Flowers, or any other Objects. Invented September 10th, 
1845, and Filed September 27th. 1345. 

14. Elementive Dictionary. A Dictionary showing the Definition 
of Words by Elementation, also the various Combinations of the Mental 
and Physical Senses recognized in the English Language, and their 
Relations to Power and Matter. Invented August 14th, 1845. Un- 
published. 

15. Cylinder Plow-. A Plow consisting of two or more Armed or 
Toothed Cylinders, supported and operated by the Carriage Wheels on 
which they run. Its fore Cylinder prepares the Materials and Soil, and 
its Rear one, mixes them well together. It can be made to operate as 
wide or narrow as desired. Invented September 4th, 1845, and Filed 
September 19th, 1845. 

16. Mixing and Moulding Machine. A Machine for Mixing 
and Moulding Brick. Bread or othei Materials at the rate of Fifty or 
One Hundred Thousand Patterns a day. It is intended chiefly for 
making Brick for all Kinds of Fencing, Building and Masonry. It is 
mostly of Cast-Work and can be put up for Mixing and Moulding sepa- 
rately or together, of any Size that may be wanted. It maybe operated 
by Human. Animal. Steam or Water Power. Its Object is so far to 
expedite and facilitate the Manufacture of Brick, as to give them the 
General Preference over every Thing else, in Point of Cheapness, Con- 
venience and Durability-, as a Fencing and Building Material. In- 
vented May 25th, 1845. Improved in 1846, and Filed September 19th, 
1845. 



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TERMS DEFINED. 



Atom — An Individual Particle of 
Power or Matter. 

Breve — An Abbreviation. 

Co-medion — An Equal with the 
Medion. 

Chemically — By Union. 

D — stands for Degree. 

Depotensiate — To disunite Power 
from Matter. 

Depotension The Disunion of 

Power from Matter. 

Element — An Individual Kind of 
Power or Matter, or the Individ- 
ual Office of any Sense. 

Elementation — The Reduction of 
every Thing" into its Individual 
Elements or Offices. 

E. L.-Stands for Extremely Large. 

E. S.— Stands for Extremely Small. 

Bquipotensiate — To unite Power 
and Matter, Equally. 

Equipotension — The union of Pow- 
er and Matter, Equally. 

Expotensiate — To potensiate Me- 
chanically. 

Expotension — Mechanical Poten- 
sion. 

Impotensiate — To potensiate Chem- 
ically. 

Impotension — Chemical Potension. 

M.— Stands for Medium or Medion. 

Mechanically — By Contact. 

Median — A Physical Medium. 

Medion — A Mental Medion or Av- 
erage Radiun. 

Mental Power — Power operating 
the Mental Senses. 

M. Zone — The Front or Upper 
Half of the OHcle. M. Z. 

L. — stands for Large. 

N. Zone — The Rear or Lower Half 
of the Oricle. N. Z. 



Oricle — H. Strait's Hemisphere for 

Human Masurement. 
Over-Medion — Over the Medion. 
Overpotensiate— To unite too much 

Power with Matter. 
Overpotension — The union of too 

much Power with Matter. 
Physical Power — Power operating 

the Physical Senses. 
Potensial — Relating to Power. 
Potensial Laws — The Laws of the 

Universe. 
Potensiate — To unite Power with 

Matter. 
Potension — The Union of Power 

with Matter. 
P. — Stands for Power. 
Q. C. — Stands for Quarter Circle. 
Radion — A Measurement by the 

Oricle. 
Repotensiate — To reunite Power 

with Matter. 
Repotension — The reunion of Pow- 

with Matter. 
S. — Stands for Small. 
Substance-Any Thing composed of 

Power and Matter. 
Sensorion — The Centre of Radia- 
tion in the Head. 
Ultimation — The fartherest Degree 

of Elementation. 
Under-Medion— Under the Medion. 
Underpotensiate — To unite too lit- 
tle Power with Matter. 
V. L. — Stands for Very Large. 
y # S. — Stands for Very Small. 
X. — Stands for Ten or the Deci 

mal Scale. 
" — Stands for, As Above, 
t — Stands for, Add. 
|| — Stands for, Substract. 
= or — — Stands for, Equal. 



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THE POTENSIAL PHILOSOHHY. 

By the Potensial Philosophy, Power is presumed to consist of Ex 

TREMELY MINUTE AND MOVABLE MATERIAL ATOMS, AND MATTER OP 

Extremely minute and Immovable material Atoms. Degree is 
the measure of Atoms of Power and Quantity, of Atoms of Matter. 
Power and Matter united, disunited and reunited, Chemically and 
Mechanically, in Degree, Qunantity and Element, account for the Mo- 
bility and Immobility of all Parts of the Universe. They also account 
for all its other Attributes. The Grand Object in view, has been to 
investigate the Equality, Reciprocity and Continuity of Cause and Effect 
in all the Mental and Physical Operations of the Univers. Each Idea 
is advanced declaratively and stands subject to future Confirmation or 
Refutation. Repetition is frequently used to strengthen their Individual 
Impression. The Philosophy of the Human Character is only the 
Potensial Philosophy, applied to its Investigation. The Elementation 
of the Senses so as to give Consistency to their Combinations and Dis- 
tinctness to their Offices, and the Invention of the Oricle and the Plan 
of applying it so as to develope Natural Character with Reliable Cor- 
rectness, has long engaged my Mind. My object has been to make 
Mental Philosophy as much a Practical Science as Mechanical Philoso- 
phy. By the Application of the Potensial Philosophy, I have solved 
many of the Whys nnd Wherefores that exist in the Universe to my 
own satisfaction, and hoping that a Knowledge of its Principles may 
be Instrumental in investigating, improving and advancing Science, I 
have hereby published it to the World. Power is as much the Mover 
of all Animal, Vegetable and Human Bodies as it is of all Machinery, 
the Difference being only in the manner of its Collection and Application 
to Operation. Power carries up Water in Vapors and precipitates it in 
Showers. It gives Animals, Vegetables and Mortals their Growth, and 
its Withdrawal their Decay. Its Application vivifies the Face of Nature, 
and its Withdrawal, Deadens it. It operates all Things that operate, 
and is absent from whatever does not operate. It builds Solids out of 
Atoms Chemically, and bursts them to Atoms Mechanically. It holds 
Fluids in Solution, and gives their Atoms different Stratifications. It 
drives all Vessels by Water, Air or Land; and the Earth and Planets 
in their Periodical Revolutions. It tosses the Ship, the Storm, the 
Ocean and the Land. It constitutes the Speed and Force of Lightning, 
and the Labor of the Earthquake, Volcano, Cataract, Avalanche and 
Water Spout. It rolls the Thunder and shoots the Thunderbolt. It 
speeds the Wheels of Time and the Progress of Revolution. It draws, 
it drives, it darts, it guides, it speeds, it carries, it supports, it thunders, 
it shakes, it conquers, it weaves, it prints, and does all Things. A cor- 
rect Knowledge of its Operation constitutes Philosophy, and its Appli- 



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cation and Adaptation to the Performance of Human Labor the Om- 
niptence of Science and Man. 

1. Who made all Power and Matter? God. What does all Power 
consist of? Atoms. What, all Matter? Of Atoms. What constitutes 
the Elements of Power and Matter? Their different Kinds of Atoms. 
What does the Universe consist of? Atoms of Power and M atter. 
W T hat constitutes its Active Parts? Atoms of Power. What, its Passive 
Parts? Atoms of Matter. What gives its Parts, Elasticity? Atoms of 
Power. What gives its Parts, Permanency? Atoms of Matter. What 
keeps the Universe in Perpetual Operation? Atoms of Power. 

10. What are all Atoms of Power, individually? Elastic and 
Active. W r hat, all Atoms of Matter? Unelastic and Passive. 
What is the Form of Atoms of Power and Matter? Spherical. What 
is Power without Matter? Revolutionary. What, Matter without 
Power? Stationary. How do the Atoms of Power exist, Individually? 
Independent of one another. How the Atoms of Matter, Individually?. 
Independent of one another. Have the Atoms of Power any Union for 
one Another? None. Have the Atoms of Matter any Union for one 
Another? None. What, then, have the Atoms af Power and Matter? 
A Union for one Another. 

20. How do the Atoms of Power and Matter exist, so as to keep 
up all the Changes of the Universe? By repeated Periodical Unions, 
Disunions and Reunions with one another. What may be considered 
Elements of Power? Light, Electricity, Lightning, Galvanism and 
Magnetism. What, Elements of Matter? Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitro- 
gen, Chlorine, Fluorine, Bromine, Boron, Carbon, Iodine, Phosphorus, 
Selenium, Sulphur, and the Metals. Are these pure Elements of Either? 
No, they are rather their purest individual Exhibitions. What operates 
avery Thing in the Universe, and holds it in Operation? Atoms of 
Power. What are all the Inequalities of Operation in the Universe? 
Periodical. What does Power give to the Universe? Its Operation. 
What, Matter? Its Formation. Is the Universe Finite? Yes. Is 
Space Infinite? Yes. 

30. W'hat is Mental Power? Power applied to Mental Operations. 
What, Physical Power? Power applied to Physical Operations. What 
Mechanical Power? Power applied to Mechanical Operations. What, 
Chemical Power? Power applied to Chemical Operations. What 
gives all the Variety of Operation in the Universe? Atoms of Power. 
What, all the Variety in its Formation? Atoms of Matter. What does 
all Form result from? Atoms of Matter arranged by Atoms of Power. 
What does all Change result from? Atoms of Matter changed by Atoms 
of Power. What quickens all Operations? The Increase of Power. 
What retards all Operations? The Increase of Matter. j 

40. How do the A>mis of Power operate? Individually. How are 
the Atoms of Matter operated? Individually or Collectively. What 
does the Universe operate in? A Vacuum. What is its Form. — 
Spherical. What is the Form of its Suns, Systems, Stars, Moons, 



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Comets and Planets? Spherical. What are two or more Equalities of 
Power, Matter, or Both, Equal to? One Another. What Form has 
the Greatest Mobility? A Sphere. W^hat, the Greatest Immobility? 
A Hemisphere. What, then, is Sphereity the Representative of? 
Mobility. What, then, is Hemisphericity? Of Immobility. 

50. What are always Equal? Cause and Effect. What are the 
different Elements of Power and Matter for? Different Uses. What, 
of itself, is always Operative? Power. What, of itself, is always 
Inoperative? Matter. What gives all the Variety of the Universe? 
The Union, Disunion and Reunion of the differont Elements of Power 
and Matter in different Degrees and different Quantities. What is 
Degree the Measure of? Power. What is Quantity the Measure of? 
Matter. What is the Equilibrium of the Universe kept up by? The 
Equilibrium of Power and Matter in its Parts. When Power and 
Matter operate by Contact, what is the Operation. Mechanical. — 
When they operate by Union, Atom with Atom? Chemical. 

60. What are all Mechanical Operations effected by? Contact. 
What, all Chemical Operations? By Union. What gives all Direc- 
tion? Chemical Power. Whatdoes all Execution? Mechanical 
Power. What does all Cause in the Universe result from? Applied 
Power. What is all Effect the Result of? Applied Power. 
What is Action and Reaction in the Atoms of Power? Equal and Re- 
ciprocal. Have the Atoms of Matter any Action and Reaction of them- 
selves? None. What is the Action and Reaction of Bodies or Medi- 
ums in Proportion to? Their Potension. Whenever there is Matter in 
Motion, what is in operation? Power. 

70. What are the Forms of all Bodies made up of? Atoms of 
Matter. What are the Operations of all Bodies caused by? Atoms of 
Power. What may every Thought, Idea, Motion, Operation, Rotation, 
Revolution, Progression, Effect, Change, and Manifestation be resolved 
into? The Action of Power. What is the Measure of Power? Ac- 
tion. What partakes more or less of Action or Inaction, as they par- 
take more or less of Power and Matter? All Parts of the Universe. 
What does all Action whatever in the Universe result from? Applied 
Power. What is all Operative Power? Mechanical. What, all Di- 
rective Power? Chemical. How are the Changes of the Universe 
effected? By the Operation and Counter Operation of Power. How is 
every Action effected? By Power and Matter in Chemical and Me- 
chanical Operation. 

80. What does Power give to all Parts of the Universe? Activity. 
What, Matter? Fixity. What is Power of itself? Never still. 
What, Matter of itself? Always still. What is Transitive and Uni- 
versal? Power. What, Stationary and Local? Matter. What revo- 
lutionises the Universe? Power. What embodies it? Matter. What 
cannot be without Power? Neither Cause or Action. Can there be 
an Effect without an Equal Cause, or a Cause without an Equal Effect? 
No. 



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DO. What is Gravitation? Power acting to a Centre. What 
is Levitatian? Power acting from a Centre. What is Equation? 
Equal Powers acting on a Centre. What is Rotation? Power acting 
round a Centre. W hat is Projection? Power acting at a Centre. 
What are the Potensial Laws? Those Laws of the Universe which 
determine the Union, Disunion and Reunion of the Atoms of Power end 
Matter, and the Time, Place, Beginning, End, Succession and Subordi* 
nation of all its Parts and Operations. What determines all the Grav- 
itations, Levitations, Rotations, Equitations and Projections in the 
Universe? The Degiee of Power. What takes place when Power 
unites chemically with Matter? The Power united, becomes localised. 
What, when Power unites mechanically with Matter. The Matter 
united, becomes Motive. Weat can there be no Operation without the 
Use of? Chemical and Mechanical Power. 

100. What does Chemical Power do? Unite the Atoms of Sub- 
stances, Bodies or Systems to one Another. What, Mechanical Power? 
Give Gravitatian, Levitation, Rotation, Equation, Operation, Projection 
and Pogression to these Substances, Bodies or Systems. What does 
Chemical Power give to the Atoms of Matter? Union, Solidity, Strength, 
Adhesion, Hardness, Density, Ductility, Maleability and Impenetra- 
bility. What does Mechanical Power give to the Atoms of Matter? 
Disunion, Fluidity, Fusion, Penetrability, Porosity, Motion, Expansion, 
Operation, Action Diffusion and Extension. What does the Elasticity 
of Substances depend on? The Degree of their Chemical and Me- 
chanical Powers. What is every Thing Potensial in Proportion to? 
Its Power. What is every Thing Material in Proportion to? Its 
Matter. What is all Space? Either Medium, or Vacuum. What is 
Medium? Space occupied by Power and Matter. What is Vacuum? 
Space unoccupied by Power and Matter. 

110. What do Power and Matter passing through Medium meet 
with? More or less Resistance. What through Vacuum? No Resist- 
ance. What is the Line of Passage through a Medium? More or less 
Crooked. What through a Vacuum? Straight. What is the Office of 
Mechanical Power? To overcome Chemical Power, or give Matter 
Motion. What of Chemical Power?/ To unite the Atoms of Matter 
together so as to be operated by Mechanical Power. What are the 
Atoms of Power of themselves? Movable. What, the Atoms of 
Matter of themselves? Immovable. How do the Potensial Laws Act? 
Imperatively and Penally. What is the Best Demonstration of a God? 
The Universe. Of His Providence? Its Operations. 

120. What is the Systemization of the Universe founded on? A 
Subordination of Parts, Interchange of Offices, and Correspondence of 
Operations. What is Chemical Composition? The Union of Power 
and Matter, Atom by Atom. What, Chemical Decomposition? The 
Disunion of Power and Matter, Atom by Atom. What Chemical Re- 
composition? The Reunion of Power and Matter, Atom by Atom. 
What does Chemical Composition do? Unite the Atoms of Power and 



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Matter. What, Chemical Decomposition? Disunite their Atom?; 
What. Chemical Recomposition? Reunite their Atoms. What do all 
Qualities, Properties or Attributes result from? From the Union 
of the Elements of Power and Matter in different Proportions. What 
results from Chemical Composition? All the Substances or Bodies 
of the Universe. W^hat, from Chemical Decomposition? Their indi* 
vidual Atoms. 

130. What does Power give Matter? All its Motion. What doe* 
Matter give Power in Return? All its Stability. What are Counter- 
Operations? Chemical Composition and Decomposition. What is 
Matter Active in Proportion to? Its Power. What is Power Passive 
in Proportion to? Its Matter. What does every Part of the Universe 
perform its Office for? Its own Benefit and the Benefit of the Whole 
by Reciprocation. What does Chemical Power become when changed 
in its Office? Mechanical. What Mechanical, when changed? Chemi- 
cal. What are Action and Reaction in Power? Equal and Equals? 
What Gravitation and Levitation? * Equal and Equals. 

140. What does all Production and Reproduction result from? Ap- 
plied Power. What is Power for? The Operation of the Universe.- 
'What is Matter for? The Formation of the Universe. What is Time 
for? The Duration of the Universe. What is Space for? The Loca- 
tion of the Universe. What are the Potensial Laws for? The Govern- 
ment of the Universe. What are they protected by? Potensial Penal- 
ties. Wliat does every Operation have? A Centre and Circumference. 
What is every Body constituted of and bounded by? Atoms. W^hat 
do not the Potensial Laws admit of? Any Pardon, Palliation, Exten- 
uation, Commutation, Impunity and Indemnification for their Vio- 
lation. 

150. What is every Thing in the Universe Abundant in Proportion 
to? The Use intended it by God. As the Violation of the Potensial 
Laws is Personal, what is their Punishment? Personal too. What is 
the Universe throughout? Order and Discipline. What may the Atoms 
of Power and Matter do? Unite their Elements in a greater or less 
Proportion with one another. What is Motion? Power in Circula- 
tion or Operation. What is the Universe composed of? Systems. Its 
Systems? Of Planets. Its Planets? Of Bodies. Its Bodies? Of 
Substances. Its Substances? Of Atoms of Power and Matter. 

160. How does Chemical Power operate? Atom by Atom, 
How, Mechanical Power? Atom by Atom, Substance by Substance, or 
Body by Body. What does Causation result from? Applied Power, 
How does Power change Matter? Either Chemically or Mechanically. 
What is Power in the Universe? The Operater. What is Matter? 
The Operatee. What are all Solids/ Atoms of Matter united by 
more or less Chemical Power. What are all Fluids? Atoms of Matter 
united by more or less Mechanical Power. What are Chemical and 
Mechanical Power in a constant State of ?Inter-Ofnciation. Whence is 
all Cause in the Universe? From Power. 



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170. What docs Chemical Power impart to the Atoms of Matter? 
Solidification. What, Mechanical Power? Operation or Separation 
into distinct Bodies. How does the Withdrawal of Chemical Power 
from Substances leave them? In Atoms. How the Withdrawal of 
Mechanical Power? At Rest. What does Power added to Matter 
Chemically, do? Unite its Atoms. What, mechanically? Move or 
Operate them. What is the Resistance of Mediums and Substances to 
one Another? Mechanical. Are the Potensial Laws the same 
throughout the Universe? Yes. What is the Universe always the 
same in? Its Amount of Power and Matter. What do the Atmos- 
pheres of all the Planets form? A Medium of Communication between 
all their Parts. 

180. What is Power? A Material Existence. What is Matter? 
A Material Existence. What are all Mediums Active in Proportion to? 
Their Power. What, Passive? In Proportion to their Matter. Can 
there be an Effect without a Cause^ora Cause without an Effect? No. 
What are the Potensial Laws? The Laws of God. What is the only 
Perpetual Motion? Power. What is Power and Matter made up of? 
Atoms. What, Mind and Body? Elements. What, Language and 
Numbers? Characters. 

190. What are always Equal and Equals? Cause and Effect. — 
What conduct Power? Nerves, Wires, Mediums and Machinery. 
What does the Overpotension of Men, Animals and Machinery do/ 
Wear them out Prematurely. What are all Foods and Drinks, Intoxica- 
ting or Stimulating, in Proportion to? Their Overpotension. Which 
is the most Potensial, the Animal or Vegetable Kingdom? The Animal. 
The Vegetable or Mineral? The Vegetable. Which soonest wears out 
the Human System, Animal or Vegetable Food? Animal. In its Exist- 
ence, what is all Composed Matter? Chemical. What, all Decomposed 
Matter? Mechanical. In Animate Bodies, what indicate the Degrees 
of their Potension? Circulation, Respiration, Pulsation, Sensation, 
Motion, Activity and Operation. 

200. What indicates the Degrees of Chemical Potension in Inanimate 
Bodies? Solidity, Strength, Tenacity, Adhesion and Density. What 
does Disease result from? Under or Overpotension. In the Cure of 
Diseases, what is every Medicine, Remedial, in Proportion to? Its 
Degree of Equipotension. What are Penalties for the Violation of 
the Potensial Laws? Diseases, Pains, Fevers, Inflammations, Debilities 
and Agonies. What do Fluidity, Liquidity, Gasidity, Fusion, Melting, 
and Solution result from? Applied Mechanical Power. What are 
Substances fusible and soluble in Proportion to? Their Mechanical 
Potensiability. What Atoms have the least Friction? Those of Gases. 
What, the most? Those of Solids. What, Medium? Those of Fluids. 
What always succeeds Cause? Effect. 

210. What results from Depotension? Gases become Fluids, 
Fluids Solids, and Solids Atoms. What results from Repotension? 
Atoms become Solids, Solids Fluids, and Fluids Gases. What always 



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precedes Effect? Cause. What does all Opposition result from? — 
Power opposed to Power. What does Power subject Matterto? Operation 
and Direction. What does Chemical Power do to all Machinery? 
Give Stability, Strength and Form to all its Movable or Immovable 
Parts. What, Mechanical Power? Operate its Movable Parts. What 
is the Measure of Chemical Power? Solidity or Resistance. Of Me- 
chanical Power? Fluidity or Operation. Who alone can alter or amend 
the Potential Laws? God. 

2 20. What do the Potensial Laws possess? The Power of Com- 
mand and Punishment. How does Chemical Power deposite or remove 
Matter? Atom by Atom. How, Mechanical Power? Atom by Atom, 
or Mass by Mass. Hoav does Chemical Composition act? From Centre 
to Surface. How Chemical Decomposition? From Surface to Centre. 
What is Equal in a Sphere? All its possible Radiations. What does 
Equipotension do? Lengthen Animal, Vegetable, and Human Life. 
What, Under and Overpotension? Shorten them. What unites Solids? 
Impotension. What, Fluids and Gases? Expotension. 

230. What is Truth? A complete Representation of any Thing or 
Action. What is Justice? The Equal Administration of any Thing 
or Action. What is Virtue? The Practice of Truth and Justice. 
What is the Element of Truth? Knowledge. What, of Justice? 
Equality. What, of Virtue? Good. What must what begins- do? 
End. What does Temperature result from? Potension. What, 
High Temperature? From Overpotension. What, Low Temperature? 
From Underpotension. 

240. What does Equal Temperature result from? Equipotension. 
What, Suspended Animation? From Depotension. How can Sus- 
pended Animation be restored? By Repotension. What does Equipo- 
tension cause? Equality, Temperance, Moderation, Health, Happiness 
and S elf-Command. VVhat, Overpotension? Inequality, Intemperance, 
Immoderation, Intoxication, Indulgence, Eccentricity, Excess and Pas- 
sion. What does Power cause, applied Equally? An Equality of 
Parts and Operations. What, Unequally? An Inequality of Parts 
and Operations. What do all Equalities result from? Equipotension. 
What, all Inequalities? From Under or Overpotension. How is Time 
measured? By Power in Planetary or Mechanical Operation. 

250. How do the Circles of Operation in the Universe, increase and 
decrease? According to their Increase and Decrease in Power. What 
i ncreases or decreases Sound? The Potension of its Medium. What do the 
Increase and Decrease of Temperature and Evaporation, result from? The 
Increase and Decrease of Potension in their Medium. What deter- 
mines Temperature and Evaporation? Potension. What may conduct 
Power like Substances? Mediums. What do the Degrees of Elasticity 
depend on? The Degrees of Potension. What is the only Thing that 
can be and not be? Nothing. Can Reason, reason, Reason down? 
No Can there be a Reason for a Thing really, and a real Reason 



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against it? No. Can an Atom of Power or Matter be lost, destroyed 01 
withdrawn from the Universe? No. 

260. What is the Reason or Cause of every Operation and Effect in 
the Universe? Potension. What are all the Vibrations or Undulations 
of the Air, Atmosphere or any Medium caused by? Potension. How 
do Bodies move, when operated by Gravitation and Levitation? In 
Tangents. What do Light and Heat result from? The Chemical 
Depotension of Substances or Mediums. What, Darkness and Cold? 
From the Mechanical Depotension of Substances or Mediums. What 
does Life result from? Potension. What, Death? From Depotension. 
What does Chemical Power do to Bodies? Increase their Size and 
Strength. What, Mechanical Power? Increase their Motion, and 
decrease the Union of their Atoms. In what is every Operation of the 
Universe Periodised? In Time and Extent. 

270. What does every Thing in the Universe have? Its Sphere, 
Law and Use. What do the Atoms of Matter become, when poten- 
siated Chemically? Immovable. When, Mechanically? Movable. 
What is Equally necessary in the Chain of Causation? Every Link. 
How does Cause operate? By Perpetual Transition, like Power. 
What is the Office of all Machinery? To unite, disunite or reunite 
Atoms or Substances Mechanically. What is the Deposition of Matter, 
Chemically? Composition. What, Mechanically? Decomposition. 
What are the Human Senses, the Instruments of? Knowledge. What 
is Power employed in? All Mental and Physical Labor and Chemical 
and Mechanical Operation. 

280. What does Power cause the Changes of? Size, Form, 
Weight, Color, Order, Number, Sound. Speech, Place, Motion, Opera- 
tion, Action, Language, Expression and Representation. What do the 
Potensial Laws provide for, in case of Invasion or Violation? Their 
Restoration and Supremacy. What does Equipotension give to Animal, 
Vegetable and Human Bodies? Vigor, Tone, Elasticity, Longevity and 
Endurance. What is effected, Atom by Atom? The Formation, De- 
cay, Erection, Decline, Growth, Prostration, Increase and Decrease of 
every Tree, Plant, Vegetable and Being. How does Power act in 
Solids? Chemically. How in Fluids and Gases? Mechanically. At 
what Temperature ought Food and Drink to be taken? At the Tempe- 
rature of the Body in Health. How much Food and Drink should be 
taken? A Sufficiency for the Nutrition and Operation of the System. 
What does Power have? Its Exits, Entrances, Transits, Circuits, 
Orbits, Passages and Directions. How does Heat increase? As Li ght 
decreases. How does Light increase? As Heat decreases. 

290. What does Light arise from? Diffused Potension. What, 
Heat? Concentrated Potension. What is liberated by all Kinds of 
Decomposition? Power. What is fixed by all Kinds of Composition? 
Power. What is Illumination? Diffused Potension. What is the 
Diffusion of Power at the Expense of? Its Concentration. What have 
all Parts of the Universe? More or less Stability or Mobility, according 



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to their Degree of Power and Quantity of Matter. What is Effect as 
Instantaneous as? Cause. What, Reaction? Action. Were the 
Power and Matter of the Universe, entirely disunited, what would it 
become? Stationary instead of Revolutionary. 

300. What does Mechanical Power give to Matter? Diffusion, 
Extension, Expansion, Dimension, Motion, Operation and Action. 
What, Chemical Power? Form, Direction, Contraction, Concentration 
and Consolidation. How are the Penalties of the Potensial Laws pro- 
portioned? According to the Degree of their Violation. What has 
every Thing in the Universe? A definite and specific Office and Use. 
How is every Thing in the highest Degree, Safe and Beneficial? Used, 
as God intended it. What has Use? Its Benefits. What, Abuse? 
Its Penalties. What is essential to all Mechanical Operation or Ac- 
tion? Contact or Communication by Medium. What is essential to 
all Chemical Operation or Action? The Union or Disunion of Atoms. 
Can any Atom be in two different Places at the same time, or any 
two or more Atoms be in the same Place at the same time? No. 

310. In Solids, what does Elasticity result from? Mechanical Power 
in their Pores, and Chemical in their Atoms. In Fluids, Mediums and 
Gases, what? From Mechanical Power among their Atoms. What 
does Solidification increase with? Chemical Potension. What, Fluid- 
ity? With Mechanical Potension. What liberates the Power which 
drives all Machinery? Chemical Decomposition. What do Springs 
and Substances of all Kinds derive their Elasticity from? Potension. 
What is necessary, to stop any Operation in the Universe? To remove 
its Power or oppose it by an Equal or Greater One. What does all 
Weight or Gravity, result from? Power acting to a Centre. What 
all Lightness, Levity or Buoyancy? Power acting from a Centre. 
What is Distillation and Cookery for? The Potension of Drinks and 
Food. 

320. What do Animal, Vegetable and Human Temperature or Heat, 
arise from? Potension. What do Systemary, Planetary and Atmos- 
pheric Heat arise from? Potension. What is the Operation of every 
System, Sun, Star, Satellite, Planet, Comet and Moon? Mechanical. 
What, their Constitution? Chemical. What do Light and Heat originate 
from? Some Decomposition. What, Terminate in? Some Composition. 
If Power or Matter increase in one Part of the Universe, what takes 
place in another or others? Decrease. How do all Animal, Vegetable, 
Mineral and Human Bodies, increase and decrease? Atom by Atom of 
Power and Matter. What do Union, Friction, Contact, Pressure, Re- 
sistance, Touch, Percussion and Medium form? A Connexion or Com- 
munication between Chemical and Mechanical Power. What are the 
Instruments of Mechanical Power? The Lever, Sphere, Spiral, Screw, 
Plane, Pulley, Wheel, Wedge and Axle. 

330. What does Chemical Power do? Cement the Atoms of all 
Substances together. What, Mechanical Power? Disunite the Atoms 
of all Substances. What vitalizes all Matter? Potension. What does 



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Chemical Potension cause? Chemical Vitality. What, Mechanical 
Intension? Mechanical Vitality. What does Vitalization or Organiza- 
tion result from? Potension. What, Mortification or Dissolution? 
From Depotension. What do Traction, Tension, Locomotion, Impul- 
sion, Progression and Projection result from? The Potension of the 
Atoms of Substances or Bodies. What cannot operate without Poten- 
sion? Mechanism of any Kind. What is the Element of all Mechan- 
ical Instruments and Machinery? The Lever. 

340. What is Chemical Action necessary to? All Operation. What 
are all the Operations of the Universe carried on by? Potension. 
What, stopped by? Depotension. What, renewed by? Repotension. 
What, overdone by? Overpotension. What, underdone by? Under- 
potension? What, Equally or well-done by? Equipotension. What 
does the Universe present in all its Parts? A constant Succession of 
Appearances, Disappearances and Reappearances, or a Union, Disunion, 
and Reunion of Atoms. What is communicated by Power acting 
through a Medium? Light, Sound, Speech, Signs, Music, Smells, Noise, 
Language and Gesticulations. What are Sleep, Rest or Repose for? 
The Repotension of Animal and Human Bodies. 

350. What are manifestations of diffused or concentrated Potension? 
Fire, Flame, Sparks, Ignition, Heat, Light, Caloric, Burning, Boiling, 
Heating, Firing, Warming, Igniting and Inflaming. What can there 
not be without a Centre? Rotation, Radiation, Equation, Levitation 
and Gravitation. How do all Medicines operate? Either Chemically 
or Mechanically. How all Drinks and Food? Chemically or Mechan- 
ically. How are Diseases cured? By removing or overpowering their 
Cause. What is every Water Fall and Wind? Power at Human Com- 
mand for Useful Performance. Wh^t does Gravitation and Levitation 
do? Throw down and build up the Changable Parts of the Universe. 
What results from Mechanical Depotension? Ice, Snow, Dew, Frost, 
Hail, Cold, Freezing, Refrigeration and Congelation. What is Heat? 
Concentrated Mechanical Potension. What, Light? Diffused Me- 
chanical Potension. 

360. What causes Vegetation to grow upwards? Levitation. 
What, to fall downward? Gravitation. What germinates Seeds? Po- 
tension. What hatches Eggs? Equipotension. What have different 
Degrees of Potension? The different Rays of Light. Which is the 
most Potensial? The Red. Which, the least? The Violet. Which, 
Medium? The Green. How do the other Rays range in Potensiality? 
In the Order they stand in the Prism. When is their Potensiality the 
least? When all united in White. 

370. Why does Light appear less Potensial than Heat? Because 
of its Diffusion in every Direction. Why Heat more Potensial than 
Light? Because of its Concentration to a Point. What do Chemical 
Operations supply Power for? All Mechanical Operations. What 
exists wherever there is Gravitation and Levitation? Useful Powei at 
Human Command. What does Equality in the Application of Power 



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give? Regularity and Durability of Performance. What, Inequality/ 
Irregularity and Inefficiency. What do Moments measure? Time. 
What, Atoms? Magnitude. What stratify the Atoms of Air, Atmos- 
pheres, Mediums, Fluids, Liquids and Gases? Potension in different 
Degrees. How does Power opposed by Power, operate? By Mili- 
tation. 

380. How many Kinds of Contact are there? Two, Direct and 
Medial. What is Direct Contact? When one Thing touches another. 
What, Medial Contact? When one Thing is connected to another by a 
Medium. What does Density result from? Chemical Potension. — 
What, Porosity? From Mechanical Potension. What, Vegetation? 
From Potension. What, the Decay of Vegetation? From Depoten- 
sion. What, the Revival of Vegetation? From Repotension. What 
takes place when Mechanical Potension leaves any Thing? It is 
Stationary until it resumes it again. What, therefore, does it deter- 
mine? The relative Situation of all Things in the Universe. 

390. How do all Medicines, Remedies and Poisons operate? By 
their Chemical or Mechanical Potension. W T hat do the Planets rotate 
in? A Vacuum. What have the Planets round them? Atmospheres. 
What does Impotension do? Hold the Atoms and Parts of Bodies to- 
gether. What, Expotension? Move them. How do the Potensial 
Laws operate? Atom by Atom and Degree by Degree. What are 
Circumstances? Only operating Powers or Causes. How are Cir- 
cumstances to be overcome? By removing their Causes or overpower- 
ing them. What are all the Attributes of Power and Matter referable 
to? Their Chemical or Mechanical Union, Disunion and Reunion in 
Element, Quantity and Degree. What is there no Necessity for? 
Abuse. 

400. How does the Lever act? On a Centre. How the Spiral, 
Wheel and Pulley? Round a Centre. How the Axle and Wedge? In 
a Centre. How the Screw? Through a Centre. How the Inclined 
Plane? To a Centre. How a Sphere? Parallel to a Centre. What 
does all Mental and Physical Pain result from? The Violation of the 
Potensial Laws. What are all Solids? Reservoirs of Chemical Power. 
What, all Fluids and Gases? Reservoirs of Mechanical Power. What 
is the same in any Operation? The Amount of Power, whether it act 
in one, many or all Directions. 

410. W^hat are the Atoms of Power, Individually? Free to act in 
any Direction. W r hat does Chemical Power do for Mechanical? Form 
a Medium of Direction or Conveyance. What, Mechanical for Chem- 
ical Power? Produce Motion. W r hat may Mechanical Power do, if 
confined by stronger Chemical Power? Operate any way and in any 
Degree. W r hy do Mankind prefer Animal to Vegetable Food, and 
Spirits to Water? Because they sooner supply the Power which they 
have wasted by Abuse. What is Man? A Periodical of the Earth, 
published thrice a Century. What is essential to all Knowledge, Jus- 
tice and Virtue? The Latitude and Departure of Truth. What, like 









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IN atcr in its Passage in the World, receives numberless Impurities and 
Contortions? Truth, Knowledge, Justice, Virtue and Religion. What 
like Gold and Silver, appear the brighter by repeated Refinement? 
Facts. What is the whole Career of Man directed and diversified by? 
Causation. 

420. If Man will not be directed into Right Measures by Reason, 
what will the Potensial Laws do? Pull him in by the Ears. How 
does all Matter act? Only as it is acted on by Power. What is all 
Power possessed of? Self- Action. What is Matter united by? 
Stronger Chemical Power. What is Matter disunited by? Stronger 
Mechanical Power. What is the Medium of Temperature on the 
Earth? The Level of the Ocean. What do all Springs, and Wells 
increase in, as they rise above the Ocean-Level? Coldness. What, as 
they fall below it? In Heat. What might the Human Stomach as 
well stand? Fire itself, as many of the Preparations made by Fire for 
it to receive. How does Powder and all Detonating, Fulminating 
and Explosive Mixtures operate? By instantaneous Chemical De- 
potension. 

430. What is Excitement overcome by? Counter-Excitement. 
What is diseased Excitement overcome by? Medicinal Exciteinent. 
W^hat may Mental or Physical Excitement be overcome by? Mental or 
Physical Counter-Excitement. What does the Sun do every 10455 
Years? Change the Preponderance of Water from one side of the 
Earth's Equator to the other. What do Earthquakes and Volcanoes 
result from? Subterranean Overpotension. What do all Winds, Tides, 
Currents and Waterfalls result from? The Mechanical Potension of 
Air or W T ater. What is the Real Reason why every Thing is so, rather 
than Otherwise? Applied Power. Which is the most Potensial, the 
Equatorial or Polar Parts of all Planets, Comets and. Rotary Bodies? 
The Equatorial. What do all the Planets radiate from and rotate 
round? Their Sun's Centre. What does the Atmosphere of the 
Earth and Planets radiate from and rotate round? Their respective 
Centres. 

440. When Power acts Longitudinally, what is it called? Magnet- 
ism. W T hen, Superficially? Electricity. When, Centrally? Galvan- 
ism. When, Constitutionally? Mesmerism. What does Potension do 
in every Degree of Latitude on the Earth? Make a Degree's Differ- 
ence in the Potensiality of the Productions of the Animal, Vegetable 
and Mineral Kingdoms. What does Potension do above the Ocean- 
Level? Decrease. What below it? Increase. What are the Strati- 
fications of the Earth's Atmosphere above the Ocean-Level? The 
Colder, the Higher they rise. What are the Air-Vessels or Lungs of 
Men and Animals, and -the Leaves of Vegetation, for? Their Mechan- 
ical Potension. What does Reproduction, Human, Animal and Vegeta- 
ble, result from? Repotension. 

450. What is the Centre of Potension to this System of the Uni- 
verse? The Sun. What are the Limbs of Men and Animals? Levers 



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for their Support, Suspension, Locomotion, Progression and Operation, 
What operate these Human and Animal Levers? Mechanical Power. 
What must the Mesmerizer always be? More Potensial than the Mes- 
merizee. What does Bleeding- and Blood-letting- produce? Mechan- 
cal Depotension. What do the Wires of Safety-Lamps do? Depo- 
tensiate the Flame. Tn order to work the Metals, what has to be over- 
come by Mechanical Power, derived from the Decomposition of Sub- 
stances? Their Chemical Power. What is the Instrument or Medium 
of Intercommunication between the Atmosphere and Earth? Water. 
What do Thunder, Detonation, Explosion, Report, Fulmination and 
Vociferation result from? The sudden Formation of a Vacuum, by 
the Passage of Power through a Medium, and its instantaneous Re- 
closure. What does a man who exactly fills his Sphere and Office in 
the Universe, resemble in Security? A Pin which exactly fills and fits 
its Hole. 

460. In what is Chemical Power, the Greatest? In Solids. In 
what, the Least? In Gases. In what is Mechanical Power, the Great- 
est? In Gases. In what, the Least? In Solids. What are Chemical 
and Mechanical Power, more or less Equal in? Fluids. What does 
Water potensiated to a certain Degree, become? Steam. What does 
Steam depotentiated to a certain Degree, become? Water. Whatpoten- 
siates the Earth, its Productions and Atmosphere? The Sun. When 
the Sun overpotensiates the Earth, what takes place? Water rises by 
Levitation into the Atmosphere and it becomes Overpotensiated. What 
results from the Depotension of the Atmosphere? Thunder, Lightning 
and Rain." 

470. What is kept in Perpetual Operation and Diffusion by the 
alternate Repotension and Depotension of the Earth and its Atmos- 
phere? Water. What does too Much Power do? Quicken Operation. 
What, too Little? Retard it. What is Cookery for? The Overpoten- 
sion of Food. What, Distillation? The Overpotension of Drinks. 
What does all Calorification result from? Mechanical Potension. How 
do the Atoms of Power and Matter unite Chemically with one another? 
In definite Measures or Proportions. What is all Composition and 
Decomposition? Either Instantaneous or Gradual. When is the Earth 
and its Atmosphere the most Potensial? In Summer. When, the least 
Potensial? In Winter. 

480. What causes Premature Decay and Death? The Use of Food 
and Drinks Over or Underpotensiated. If Man break the Potensial 
Laws, what will be broke over his Head, if they break it? The Poten- 
sial Penalties. What does the Invigoration, Astringency or Constrin- 
gency of Medicines result from? Their Chemical Power. Where is 
Potension the Greatest on the Earth? At the Equator. Where, the 
least? At the Poles. What does Land contain? More Matter and 
less Power. The Atmosphere? More Power and less Matter,. 
Water? A Medium of Power and Matter. What are only Kinds of 
Composition? Animation, Organization, Vegetation, Vitalization, 




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tion, Conflagration, Fermentation, Mortification, wecay,^ 
Friction. 

41)0. What causes Centenary Constitutions? Equipo tens ion. What 
are Teeth for? The Mechanical Preparation and Administration of 
Food. In what Proportion does Power lose its Elasticity in Substances? 
In Proportion to its Degree of Chemical Union with their Atoms. In 
what Degree, recover or retain it? In proportion to its Disunion. — 
What is all Power that Unites? Chemical. What, all that Disunites 
and Operates? Mechanical. What does the Murder of Beings ( oisist 
in? Depriving them of their Mechanical Power. What follows this 
Deprival? The loss of their Chemical Tower by Decomposition. 
What are all Substances capable of yielding in Proportion to their 
Chemical Power? Mechanical Power. What are of Indissoluble Con- 
nexion? Cause and Effect. 

500. W T hat are all Substances? Chemico-Mechanical or Mechanico- 
Chemical. What are Chemico-Mechanical Substances? Those in 
which Chemical Power predominates. What, Mechanico-Chemical 
Substances? Those in which Mechanical Power predominates. What 
distinguish Chemico-Mechanical Substances? Fixity. What, Mechan- 
ico-Chemical Substances? Motion. What is necessary for the Opera- 
tion of Mechanical Power? Stronger Chemical Power for its Direction. 
What is necessary to correct Action? A correct Knowledge of every 
Thing concerned. What is essential to all correct Knowledge? Tho- 
rough Investigation. What is the Real Gold and Silver or Solid 
Currency of Knowledge? Facts and Actions. What is uninsurable 
by repeated Investigation? The sound Currency of Science. 

510. What is the Real Lever of Knowledge? Investigation. What 
Philosophy is Best? That which unites the most Facts, and keeps up 
the Equality, Connexion, Continuance and Reciprocity of Cause and 
Effect in every Thing in the Universe. What does the same Amount 
of Power do that acts in the Levitation of Atoms or Bodies? Act 
also in their Gravitation. What do the Potensial Laws do in advance 
of their Violation? Give Warnings of Wo. What does Inactivity, 
Indolence or Laziness tend to cause? An Excess of Chemical over 
Mechanical Power. What, Exercise, Activity, Industry or Labor? 
An Excess of Mechanical over Chemical Power. What docs the Ex- 
ercise of Power tend to do? To Increase it. What does Temperate 
Exercise, Activity or Industry, tend to? Enjoyment and Endurance. 
Which is the most Potensial Food and Dxank, that prepared from Seeds 
-id Berries, or that from Roots? From Seeds and Berries. What 
'institutes the Elasticity of the Atmosphere? Atoms of Power. 

520. What answer the Purpose of Lungs in all Plants, Trees and 
tables? Their Leaves. What answer the Purpose of Stomachs? 
rheir Roots. What does Mathematics treat of? The Solid and Su- 
cial Quantity of Substances pr Bodies. 



